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constructor naming Taylor Campbell (22 Dec 2003 22:07 UTC)

Re: constructor naming Aubrey Jaffer (05 Jan 2004 19:15 UTC)

Re: constructor naming Taylor Campbell (06 Jan 2004 00:06 UTC)

Re: constructor naming Aubrey Jaffer (09 Jan 2004 03:09 UTC)

constructor naming Taylor Campbell 22 Dec 2003 22:07 UTC

Why was the constructor renamed to CREATE-ARRAY?  Everywhere else it's
MAKE-foo: R5RS's MAKE-VECTOR & MAKE-STRING, SRFI 1's MAKE-LIST, SRFI
25's MAKE-ARRAY, et cetera; I think that CREATE-ARRAY breaks a lot of
consistency.  I didn't see any consensus on renaming on this mailing
list, either...